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According to several experts who spoke with McClatchy News, Trump's comments are broadly inaccurate.

"There is no evidence linking whale deaths to offshore wind farms or 'windmills,'" said Lindy Weilgart, an ocean noise expert and policy consultant at OceanCare, a nonprofit dedicated to marine conservation. "Europe has way more offshore wind farms and has encountered nothing of the sort."

In fact, as of August 2023, the U.S. only had two operational offshore wind farms—located off Rhode Island and Virginia, according to the Department of Energy. By contrast, the U.K. alone, as of 2022, had 44 offshore farms.

"This is a complex issue, but in my opinion the answer is a hard no. There is no evidence linking whale deaths to wind turbine activity," said Sean Todd, the director of Allied Whale, a marine mammals research program at College of the Atlantic.

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